I suspect the NRA has legitimate concerns which are not mentioned in the article. You don’t write a three-page letter to just tell someone you don’t support the law.

Of course, none of this will change the almost incessant NRA-bashing one finds on various gun boards nowadays. No matter what the NRA does, they’ll still be painted as villains by certain elements of the “gun rights” movement.

When you’re the 700# gorilla of the RKBA movement that regularly fails to even acknowledge the existence any other civil right group, you just have to expect a certain amount of nit-picking.

If it wasn’t for those noisy NRA members, I’m sure the NRA response to katrina would have ended with that strongly worded press statement that finally came out after several days of door to door gun seizures.

I’m the NRA, and I try very hard to keep them honest by being a noisy supporter.

4473’s have to be retained for 25 years and if the buisness goes under must be surrenedered to the ATF which they then put into a database. And they do destroy the records. They destroy thje original after making a photocopy and keeping THAT on file forever. And then why would the ATF go into a store and photocopy there ENTIRE 4473 collection without reason and intimidate the gun store owners into doing so.

I have also been told by someone in the know that there IS a central gun registry that has been up and maintained since at least the early 1980’s. Via the photocopying I brought up. It says everything about the gun and the original buyer. But it’s flawed as it doesn’t have private sales records. Must be why there so damn hellbent on ending them.

Granted for the sake of argument that the PTB are maintaining various and sundry registries, why are they doing so and how are they paying for it?

At the federal level, it has to be kept at least nominally a secret, and there can’t be money officially appropriated for it. BATFE being the red-headed stepchildren of the federal law enforcement community, I doubt they’re getting much slush fund money.